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UC Newsroom |

UC medical school graduates take on Central Valley’s health care crisis

More than 700 medical students are earning their M.D. from a UC medical school this spring. The vast majority of these newly minted doctors — 73 percent — will stay in California for their residency training.

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UC Newsroom |

Transfer students triumph in the Class of 2024

Meet 10 first-gen graduates who started their journey to UC at a California community college.

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Jill Banfield (left) and Jennifer Doudna (right) in the IGI Building at UC Berkeley
UC Berkeley |

IGI’s ‘Audacious’ New Frontier for CRISPR: Editing Microbiomes for Climate and Health

$70M in funding will catalyze a new initiative led by Jennifer Doudna and Jill Banfield to apply precision genome editing to microbial communities.
Lake Tahoe in winter with a block of ice in the forefront
UC Davis |

Lake Tahoe’s clarity the best it’s been since 1980s

The return of native zooplankton aided Tahoe clarity efforts in 2022.
A diverse group of happy children on a playground
UC Riverside |

One of every six autistic children are expelled from daycare

Average age of rejected children was only 3.3 years old, survey found.
A man and a woman pointing at a machine in a lab
UC San Diego |

Commercial-scale biomanufactured melatonin is here

A series of fundamental advances made by UC San Diego bioengineers is accelerating the promising field of biomanufacturing.
A child's hand reaching for peanuts
UCLA |

The end of peanut allergies?

UCLA-developed technology could provide platform to fight other allergies, autoimmune disorders.
Zona Roberts
California Magazine |

Meet Zona Roberts: The grandmother of the disability movement turns 103

How Ed Roberts and his mother Zona changed the world.
Portraits of Héctor Tobar (left) and Roland Betancourt
UC Newsroom |

16 UC faculty awarded prestigious 2023 Guggenheim fellowships

The honor recognizes talented mid-career faculty who have shown exceptional creativity and scholarship in their work and exhibit further promise.
Toddlers doing projects at Rockridge Little School
UC Berkeley |

The decades-long fight to make child care a national priority

Lack of support for early care and education reflects conventional thinking about the role of women, says trailblazing activist Marcy Whitebook.
A child drinking water
UC Riverside |

Manganese in Central Valley water threatens fetuses and children

Contamination is disproportionately harming lower-income communities.
Image of small gray polymer orbs
UC San Diego |

New hope for treating rheumatoid arthritis

A new biodegradable polymer system has been developed to treat rheumatoid arthritis by working in concert with the power of the human immune system.
A circuitboard with a blue chat robot icon wearing a headset hovering over it
UC Irvine |

A call to hit the ‘pause’ button on AI experiments

Tech experts have published an open letter about artificial intelligence and the race to create something we’re not sure we can control.
View of an urban LA park with a coyote statue
UCLA |

Would more parks and trees help L.A. County residents live longer?

UCLA-led study predicts that an equitable ‘greening’ plan could add up to a million years in collective life expectancy.